[494] Edward Carrington Esq^r Accountants Office Sup^t Richmond V^a July 29^th 1789 Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17^th enclosing a statement of your account for [undecipherable] on receiving & paying money from the Department from [undecipherable] to 31 December [undecipherable] payment made for Postage [undecipherable] to M^r Davis amounting to one hundred seventy one Dollars & [undecipherable] which sum after [undecipherable] has been ascertained to be correctly [undecipherable], & you will accordingly receive that sum from the Treasurer of the United States, on forwarding this usual receipt — I am &c W.L. Griffin & M'Call Esq^rs January 29^th 1[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Wilmington N^o C[undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter of the 1 Inst^t with the accounts therein mentioned which will be placed under examination & you will be informed of the result. The balance found due to your [undecipherable] will be transmitted agreeably to your request. I am &c W.L. M^r Otho Mitchell January 30 1800 late [undecipherable] Maryland [undecipherable] Sir Your account remains open on the Books of this Office and continues charged with the balance remaining [undecipherable] by you as Pay master to [undecipherable] Esq^r [undecipherable] account [undecipherable] the late Western Expedition after crediting you with the [undecipherable] paid by M^r [undecipherable] as follows Viz.